Site improvements - feedback on problems for David

At 1440 x 900 ours is performing perfectly.....

Fred

I haven't the foggiest notion what the mathematical equation is on my computer or how to find out??? (ie: whether it's a 1680 x 1050.....or a 1440 x 900.....or maybe it 10 x 8???) Sorry, but WTF do all those numbers mean? Anyway, whatever it all means, my computer screen doesn't jump around.......unless I've had one too many sips of the bottle!!!! haha

Roachie
in Windows XP
click on 'START'
then 'CONTROL PANEL'
then 'DISPLAY'
then 'SETTINGS'

The screen resolution is shown there and is adjustable, depending on the screen you are watching, however you can't go HIGHER than the resolution built into the screen.
(would be like putting 4 litres in a 3 litre container)

The higher the resolution number the cleaner the pictures will be and the smaller you can have the size of the print and it will still be easy to read because it's much more precise and clear.

Pictures are much clearer and with-out any blurring as can be seen in this example (well tis for me) can you see the 'nose hairs' and veins in it's ears?

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Mainey . . .

Thanks for that Mainey...... mine is 1024 x 768, which seems to do the job alright....screen is stable and doesn't jump around (much).

Hi Mainey, if i choose a really high resolution, not only is the print tinier, but the clarify is lost as it becomes fuzzier. It may be because as i go up the scale, the colour quality goes from highest, to high, and then t o medium. 1152 x 864 is still at highest but is much too small for me to read.

Motherhen

Motherhen, can you clearly see the hairs in the Bulls nose ??

You can change the size of the print (in XP)
1152 x 864 is about normal (I said 'about')

The clarity should get better as the resolution is increased.

Mainey . . .

No Mainey - if i change the settings, no matter what i do to set the largest sizing, the whole screen is smaller so the picture and text is harder to see. I'm stuck with using 800 x 600 on this, my preferred computer.

Mh

Laurie and Motherhen,At work, I have the same issue(go to click on my home and screen jumps to left and you inadvetantly log out) It's a pain in the bum sometimes. To avoid logging out, hover the mouse over where you want to go, let the screen jump and then click on the tab your after.
I also can't see the L/H side of screen where Pick This Place etc is located. It's not a dial up problem as we have an optic fibre feed here and its very quick.
I do not have the same problem at home and everything works sweet there.

Hi Des Lexic

Likewise i am on ADSL, but my older set up requires the 600 X 800 resolution or everything is microscopically small.

Hi Laurie

Some time ago (maybe a year or so) David made modifications, then did something so the screen viewed correctly for 600 X 800 users as well as the more modern set ups. Then he compromised by having us view it without the LH column. Sometime between then and now (maybe at the time of that change) the screen started the jumping.

We have just gone from speed 512mbps to 1.5mbps.

After saying all that - i don't think the screen has jumped tonight!


Mh

Mine is not jumping as much, but still does a bit - so far tonight i have managed to stay logged in!

Mh

""The ability to put pics stright onto a post is easy, but if several people have already uploaded, the post is very slow to open for me. I'm not sure of a way around this""
Could be either lack of available 'memory' or your on a Dial-up modem, (making it run slow)

I could not add some pics to 'members rig page' because they 'timed out' - now I'm on Broard band it's a breeze.

Mainey . . .

Barnesy,

Gallery should be working fine - go in via your My Home page - scroll to the bottom and if you have not used all 24 images there will be an upload control available for you.

Hi David

The higher the resolution, the smaller the print - all of which i cannot read - particularly numbers and i work mainly with numbers. Also it does not use up the full width of my screen.

My ISP Westnet did changes soon after you did, and at first i couldn't view the left or right sides of the page without scrolling, then they did a fix which means it fits my screen neatly and completely again.

Mh

David

I still can't delete photos off my members rig pics, I only have 2 that are attached to a post.

Could you look at this in your own time please, By the way I will keep my membership so I can use the pic upload facility, It's great.

Cheers Steve.

Steve,

The rig pics are available on the My Rig page. YOu can view then in the gallery but update/delete is only in the My Rigs page under My Home.

David

I am logged on as a member as we speak, I went to My Home scrolled down to the pics clicked on delete then on ok in the pop up window and viola nothing happened.

Cheers Steve.

G'day Fellas.

I don't pretend to know the answer. But hear are some suggestions with the intention of being helpful.

Mother Hen (and others): The changes you attribute to the ISP would not be from them. Could be something you have done to your screen resolution or something David has done to the site.

If you have a small screen you'll need to scroll. It's a bit like whether your lunch will fit in your lunch box or not. You can squash it in but it doesn't work real well. Although you can fiddle with the resolution, you really need to accept the limitations of the small screen. A new computer, as a belated Christmas present would be the duck's guts for you.

Did you know that you can alter the text size in many cases? Go to View>Text size. That's near the top, left of your screen.

The site works normally for most people (think that's correct) so it seems that the problem is a response of the browser to the html code that drives the site, in your specific conditions.

I'm guessing you'd be using Internet Explorer to browse the internet and view this site. (correct?) It would be worth the exercise for you to download the Firefox browser and give it a go.

Simply type Firefox into the search box in Internet Explorer and follow on from there. No big deal. Firefox is free and is said by many to be superior to Internet Explorer. Id be surprised if David doesn't use Firefox.

Best wishes,
Laurie.

Hi Laurie

Thanks to the thought you are adding to this topic; much appreciated.

To clarify - i did not attribute the changes to my ISP. They are two separate issues. As computer systems advanced, changes have been made with many web sites, including ExplorOz and Westnet.

When David made the changes, he communicated with members and as those of us still needing to use 800 x 600 were having to scroll. Then he did something clever so we could see the forum without scrolling, but this compromise totally lost the LH column, and we need to scroll into the RH column where the adverts are. This was probably over a year ago. His recent changes prompted me to bring the subject up again; this included asking about another way of getting into the features we are missing in the LH column, like through the tabs on the top, and pointing out about the screen 'jumping' which i had always intended to tell David by a direct email but hadn't got around to it.

Much the same time (or much the same year), my ISP made a similar sort of change which resulted in me having to scroll to get the full screen. Being aware of how it was for us, they then did something which brought it back to normal for my screen without mucking it up for the majority - it is still normal for the different screen resolutions.

The font size adjustment does not work for me, although it does change to font ONLY in the msn groups caravaners forum. Everything else is tiny. As i work in MYOB and need clear easy to see numbers, my old computer needs to be run on 800 x 600. I know i am in a small minority.

Firefox may help, and i know people who chose it like it, but i prefer to stay where i am than do something new at this stage. I am not complaining, but just pointing out what is happening my end. Even the screen jumping has lessened over the last few days.

Thanks to everyone who has offered advice, and to David for taking on board member feedback when making improvements. The new photo feature is an incredibly quick and easy two in one process; upload photo and post into thread in one simple step. Just great.

Motherhen